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WISE Groundwater: A GWB is defined in WFD Art. 2 as a distinct volume of groundwater within an aquifer or aquifers, whereas an aquifer is defined as a geological layer with significant groundwater flow. This definition of a GWB allows a wide scope of interpretations. The submission of GWB data to the Commission by the EU Member States was accomplished via the Reportnet platform, as a part of the dataflow for WFD. Art. 13 reporting. GWB data includes spatial data as GIS polygons and GWB characteristics in an XML schema. GWBs are registered to so-called horizons, which represent distinct vertical layers of groundwater resources.
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Groundwater Directive (GWD) 2006/118/EC: Directive 2006/118/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 on the protection of groundwater against pollution and deterioration
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The WEI at river basin and sub-catchment scale within the RBD eastern Sterea Ellada (GR07) (Greece): WEI total (left), for surface water (middle) and groundwater resources (right) at river basin (top) and sub-catchment scale (bottom) within the Greek RBD eastern Sterea Ellada (GR07).
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The WEI for the RBD eastern Sterea Ellada (GR07) (Greece): -
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Relevant pressures for GWBs: Relative number of GWB where a pressure is significant (all classified GWBs and GWBs in poor quantitative status)
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Percent of groundwater bodies in poor quantitative status in 2009 per RBD: Percentage of groundwater bodies in poor quantitative status by RBDs (counted to GWBs with known quantitative status)
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Percentage of groundwater body area not achieving good chemical status due to nitrate (a) and total nitrogen input from organic and inorganic fertilisers (b): -
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Proportion of classified groundwater bodies in different River Basin Districts in poor chemical status: The figure shows percentage of the total area of classified water bodies. See the indicator specification for more details
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Chemical status of groundwater bodies: The graphs illustrate the chemical status of groundwater, Percentage of groundwater bodies in poor and good status, by area.
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Distribution of chemical status of groundwater, rivers, lakes, transitional and coastal waters.: Number of Member States contributing to the dataset: Groundwater (26); Rivers (25); Lakes (22); Transitional (15) and Coastal (20). Percentages shown for rivers, lakes, transitional and coastal are by water body count. Groundwater percentages, however, are expressed by area. The total number of water bodies is shown in parenthesis. Data from Sweden are excluded from surface water data illustrated in the figure. This is because Sweden contributed a disproportionately large amount of data and, classified all its surface waters as poor status since levels of mercury found within biota in both fresh and coastal waters exceed quality standards.
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